About Us

The University of Toronto International Health Program (UTIHP) is a student-run non-profit organization who accepts and promotes the World Health Organizations definition of health as:

"The ability to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is therefore a resource for life, not the object of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capacities." (WHO,1986)


• Educate and advocate health as a global concern and a cornerstone of sustainable development.
• Provide an interdisciplinary forum for promotion and discussion of international health issues.
• Develop resources for international health outreach.
• Provide students from various disciplines the opportunity to develop leadership skills and a working knowledge base for further involvement in international health.

OBJECTIVES:

• Raise awareness of international health through educational seminars and campus events.
• Strengthen our ties within the international community through active collaborations with local and overseas student groups, the Office of International Relations, and non-governmental organizations.
• Establish an interdisciplinary forum by recruiting students and staff from a variety of disciplines at the University of Toronto.
• Raise funds for international health outreach through structured campus events.
• Support student initiatives by providing financial assistance for innovative projects that have an international interdisciplinary focus, by establishing an information network listing on foreign contacts abroad, and by encouraging intradisciplinary professional growth in international health.
• Revisions to the mandate, objectives, and/or constitution of UTIHP shall be placed on the agenda of a general meeting by any member of the Steering Committee. These revisions will then be discussed at a general meeting, subjected to a vote, and adopted by UTIHP when 2/3 of the of the majority are in agreement.